On the huge jade screen, a huge map is hung three feet high and four feet wide.

The central part is marked with the "Great Yuan Empire", with the Ögedai Khanate to the north, the Chagatai Khanate to the west, the Kipchak Khanate to the west, and the Ilkhanate below the Kipchak Khanate and the Chagatai Khanate. Including the Great Yuan, the area of each khanate (empire) is extremely vast, and in the corner below these five giant khanates, a palm-sized area is marked with the word "Song State", and the cinnabar has not dried, which is obviously just added.

Kublai Khan, dressed in a dragon robe, stood in front of this huge map, his eyes did not stop on the Song Kingdom, but kept his eyes on the three major khanates: the Ögedai Khanate, the Chagatai Khanate, and the Kipchak Khanate. These are the three major rivals of the Great Yuan Empire, and compared to them, the Song Kingdom, which has just set off a little storm, is really nothing.

In detail, the five khanates, including the Great Yuan, are all in the same vein. The reason for the current situation of endless death is all due to Kublai Khan's "betrayal".

After the death of the Mongol Great Khan Möngke, it was customary for all kings who were eligible to inherit the throne of the Great Khan to go to Mobei to participate in the Kuritai, or Kuritai Assembly, which elected the Mongol Khan. At that time, the highest voice was Kublai Khan's younger brother Ali Buge.

As the youngest son, Ali Buge was the rightful successor of the Tuolei line, and controlled most of the Mongol tribes and armies left behind by his parents. When Möngke set out for the Southern Song Dynasty, Ali Buge was ordered to stay in Horin and firmly control the political center of the Mongol regime. After Möngke's death, Ali Buke was widely supported by Möngke's sons and the ministers of the Mongol Khanate, and appeared as Möngke's rightful successor.

Kublai Khan was very aware of the outcome of his participation in Kuritai, decisively refused to be summoned, and in March 1260, with the support of some Mongol kings and Han bureaucrats and doctors in the Central Plains, Kublai Khan officially ascended the throne of the Mongol Great Khan in Kaiping, and adopted the era name of the Han dynasty for the first time - Zhongtong Era.

The previous four Mongol Great Khans were all politically centered on the Mongolian Plateau centered on Horin, and the Han region in the Central Plains was only a frontier province of the Mongol Empire. After Kublai Khan's accession to the throne in 1260, this pattern began to be reversed, and the Central Plains became the core of Mongol rule, which inevitably changed the nature of the Mongol regime.

Such a move deviated from the political tradition of the Mongol native election of the Great Khan, and was fiercely opposed by many Mongol kings and led to a rebellion among the kings.

Ali Buge immediately attacked with his army, but was defeated and captured by Kublai Khan.

At the same time, Kublai Khan also united the support of the Ilkhanate, which was founded by his other younger brother, Hulegu. However, the other three khanates hated Kublai Khan to the core.

In the spring of the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1269), representatives of the three sons of Genghis Khan, Jochi, Chagatai and Ogedei held a Kuritai Conference in the Taras steppe, and established an alliance between the Yuan Dynasty and the Ilkhanate under the leadership of Genghis Khan's youngest son, the Tulei lineage. Haidu, a descendant of Ogedai and the de facto controller of the Chagatai Khanate, was promoted as the leader of the alliance.

Genghis Khan once said that as long as Ogedai has a suckling offspring, it will be inherited in priority over others. Moreover, at that time, all the Mongol kings also made an oath that "as long as they come out of the descendants of Ogedai Hehan, even if it is a piece of meat, we will still accept him as a khan". These Mongol kings believed that they were the adherents of Genghis Khan's Great Zasa, while Kublai Khan was an outright betrayer.

This meeting became a sign of the final division of the Mongol Empire. Since then, Kublai Khan has never been at peace, and more and more Mongol kings have come forward to challenge him. Historically, the rebellion of the kings of the northwest was not resolved until the death of Kublai Khan.

The challenge to Kublai Khan by members of the Mongol Golden Family was not just a struggle for the throne of the Mongol Great Khan, but also a serious ideological disagreement. After the Tarasi Conference, the kings of the northwest sent envoys to the court to question Kublai Khan: "The old customs of this dynasty are different from the Han law, and now the Han land is stayed, the capital is built, the Yicheng is built, the ritual system is used, and the Han law is respected, why?" ”

Betraying the electoral tradition, betraying the Mongol rule, Kublai Khan became the shameful betrayer of the Golden Family, and it cannot be washed away without blood!

Similarly, for Kublai Khan, his throne could not be secured without blood, even if he fought to the death with three powerful khanates and a small power, the Song state, which was actually fought against four powerful states with the strength of one country.

Looking at the three huge national patterns in the northwest of the Great Yuan at the top of the map, at this moment, a sentence from the Han people flashed in Kublai Khan's mind: "It is born from the same root, so why be too anxious to fry each other."

There are only two Mengyuan ministers standing in the hall: Zuo Prime Minister Boyan. There is also the instigation of the capital who just sat in the position of the right man of Zhancheng Province and was quickly transferred back to his original post of "Fujian Provincial Propaganda Envoy" a few days later.

Whenever they saw this map, the two ministers of Mengyuan had an indescribable and unclear mood, so they could only sigh and be silent.

The hall was silent, and for a long time, he instigated him cautiously and said: "Great Khan, sit down and talk about it." ”

Kublai Khan fell from his horse and injured his foot in his early years, walked a little lame, and was in pain every rainy day, and could not stand for a long time, so he instigated him to say so.

Kublai Khan thumped his legs, shook his head, turned to Boyan and said: "Take advantage of the current winter in the grassland, the sea capital will not be able to make trouble for a while, the prime minister will solve the matter of the southerners first." ”

Boyan bowed his head deeply: "Boyan takes the order." ”

Boyan is the Dinghai Divine Needle placed in the northwest by Kublai Khan, and with this military strategy, no matter how happy the sea is, it can't go anywhere. Fortunately, it is the wax moon now, and the grassland is a cold and snowy land, and this season has never been the time to use soldiers, and they are fighting each other in order to wait for the spring and summer of the next year, and the grass grows and the horses are fat.

In the south, on the contrary, the summer heat is unbearable, and the plague is most likely to occur on the march, and Lingnan is a humid and miasma place, and it is the right time to use troops in autumn and winter. Therefore, taking advantage of this time difference, it is the most feasible plan to transfer Boyan to lead the troops south, take advantage of the thunderous momentum, and kill the resurgence of the Southern Song Dynasty in one blow.

It is true that Kublai Khan fought against four countries with the strength of one country, but it is impossible to fight four at the same time, and it is difficult to defeat four hands with two fists, let alone "eight hands"? Therefore, every time Kublai Khan made a move, he picked the right time, only stared at one opponent, and killed it quickly and violently with the momentum of a lion fighting a rabbit.

His sharpest "sword" was broken, and now, he wants to sacrifice the fastest sharpened sword of Dayuan, and use this quick knife to completely cut off this mess in the south - the war in the south has dragged on for too long, over and over again, and again and again, Kublai Khan's patience is about to wear out.

"In this battle, I will reset the Marshal's Mansion in the south of the country, use the prime minister to do government affairs, instigate the capital to be Erzhi, and use the governor of the two Zhejiang provinces, Fan Wenhu, to prime minister the grain and straw affairs. Huguang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang provinces are all controlled by the prime minister. What else does the prime minister want? ”

Boyan said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty has only one request. ”

"Say."

"A cowardly Xue army composed of Huo'er Chi (quiver), Yundu Chi (the one with the sword), and Balluhua (proton army)."

Kublai Khan was stunned, then laughed loudly, and shook the temple: "Okay, I will give you a team of 10,000 people!" ”